International Scholarly Research Notices

Research Article

The Effect of Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 on the Arterial Reactivity of Hypertensive Patients during Cold Pressor Test

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of the study population.


	Group A	Group B	Group C	P value
				(ANOVA)

Age (years)				0.003
Sex (males)	19 (59.4%)	22 (57.9%)	18 (56.3%)	0.968
Smokers	9 (28.1%)	9 (23.7%)	6 (18.7%)	0.676
Height (cm)				0.418
Weight (kg)				0.065
Waist (W) (cm)				0.002
Hip (H) (cm)				0.004
BMI (kg/m²)				<0.001
W/H				0.036
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)				0.162
HDL (mg/dL)				0.003
LDL (mg/dL)				0.629
Triglycerides (mg/dL)				<0.001
Fasting glucose (mg/dL)				<0.001
HbA1c (%)				<0.001
Creatinine (mg/dL)				0.794
SBP (mmHg)				0.713
DBP (mmHg)				0.042
HR (bpm)				0.676
PWVc-f (m/sec)				0.012

Values are means ± S.D. or numbers (%).
Group A: patients with arterial hypertension, Group B: patients with arterial hypertension and metabolic syndrome, Group C: patients with arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus type 2, HDL: high density lipoprotein, LDL: low density lipoprotein, HbA1c: hemoglobin A1c, SBP: systolic blood pressure, DBP: diastolic blood pressure, HR: heart rate, and PWVc-f: carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity.
ANOVA: analysis of variance.